The two-day G20-Digital Innovation Alliance summit is being held in Bengaluru….reports Asian Lite News
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar while inaugurating the two-day G20-Digital Innovation Alliance summit being held in Bengaluru spoke about key trends happening in India that are of interest to startups.
The Minister said the centre of gravity of tech which used to be in a few countries and around a few companies is now moving to open-source systems and younger startups are disrupting the normal.
“Three trends are happening that are of interest to start ups today in the innovation economy,” he said.
“The center of gravity of tech which used to be in a few countries and centered around a few corporations or few companies is moving to open source systems to younger and younger startups that are disrupting the normal and these 2 trends are in-turn capitalising on the broader trend of increased digitization and faster digitization,” he added.
The two-day Digital Innovation Alliance summit, being held on the sidelines of the fourth meeting of the ‘Digital Economy Working Group’ under G20, is being attended by global experts and digital leaders including representatives from other G20 countries.
The Summit is focused on discussions on ‘Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)’, ‘Security in the Digital Economy’, and ‘Digital Skilling’.
As part of India’s G20 Presidency, G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA) initiative was launched under MeitY Startup Hub. It recognizes and accelerates the growth of startups from all G20 countries and nine invited guest countries in six sectors – Ed-tech, Health-tech, Agri-tech, Fin-tech, Secured Digital Infrastructure, and Circular Economy that are using digital technologies to solve humanity’s most pressing needs.
A total of 174 startups from 29 countries are part of the program. These startups will pitch to a jury of global leaders at the G20-DIA Summit.
The Summit will culminate on August 18 with an awards ceremony in which 30 startups will be honoured in various categories.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the expansion of the Digital India programme with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crore.
Minister for Railway, Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said that 6.25 lakh IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under FutureSkills Prime programme.
The Digital India programme was first launched in 2015 by the Centre and now under its ambit, 2.65 lakh people will be trained in information security under the information security and education awareness phase programme.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the nation on the 77th Independence Day, hailed the startup ecosystem in the country which is the third largest globally.
“Our policies are giving more power to youth strength. Their strength has helped India become the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world,” Prime Minister Modi emphasised.
As of April this year, 98,119 entities had been recognised as startups by the government.